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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
paying her salespeople on commission, she offered generous wages and team-based bonuses. Moreover, her salespeople were instructed to encourage customers to test products and to help them find the best products for their skin types, not... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
accusations of price gouging and calls for generic alternatives. The few big companies still investing in vaccines saw their fortunes take an upward turn in the mid-2010s, as countries with growing economies, like China, expanded... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
common to both major corporations and mom-and-pop shops, and offered practical solutions based on his research. One case Narayanan used to illustrate his point involved a family-owned video store. Generally in the past, he said, as many... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Internet, and corporations are now buying their entire travel budget through specialized applications we deliver over the Internet." Technology has also changed the decision-making process for airline employees, giving them "the ability to take vast quantities of View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
stands out as the rare commodity that remains as lucrative in the good times as the bad, since we don’t switch off the radio—or stop watching the films or TV shows that license music and generate revenues—when the economy sours. The last... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Photos by Webb Chappell At first glance, the MBA Class of 2006 is an interesting collection of data points: 897 students from 67 countries, 34 percent women, 32 percent international, and 21 percent minorities. But look again, deeper this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
HBS benefactor Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) and then HBS Dean Jay Light. In a single year, while leading the HBS capital campaign, Stevenson made 277 one-on-one alumni visits. In 1983, a third development, especially significant for HBS, were the View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Katrina knocked out operations at the New Orleans headquarters and the Long Beach plant, pushing the business to the brink. Advanced planning saved vital data and operations, but Oreck credits employees with actually saving the company.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
he’s hosting a tour of the space—and assigning McKenna a key card. Ten months in as CEO of the humanitarian aid organization, it’s finally her first day in the office. One by one, a few other senior leaders assemble in the lobby for the 1 p.m. tour, including the new... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
technology. The Numerate Leader: How to Pull Game-Changing Insights from Statistical Data By Thomas A. King (MBA 1987) Wiley Using a qualitative approach to introduce statistical reasoning, The Numerate Leader: How to Pull Game-Changing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
and deliver those dollars directly to people in need, no strings attached. The initial response to the idea was lukewarm. GiveDirectly and a handful of other groups experimenting with cash payments were a direct challenge to both the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
movement, in the mid-1970s Robinson was a strategic financial manager for General Foods' (GF) domestic grocery products. After scanning a decade's worth of data and analyzing GF's investments in new product... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
entertaining,” Cohen says. “And importantly, when people come out at the end inspired and empowered in a way that they didn’t feel before, these films can do so much good in the world.” These films also demonstrate the financial superpowers that are View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of war and dynamic social realignment. The main focus is... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Robotics. “We wanted to focus on the leadership questions around AI, especially on how AI is applied to business today,” says Chow, who used AI to generate a fictitious HBS case with a protagonist in Hong Kong facing the problem of how to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
of like knowing when and how and who to do it with and all those other things are actually quite hard, right? So I think the data and analysis is always critical, right? And doing good work is always critical. And that helps inform what... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
leveraging the knowledge of people from around the world to solve big data challenges; for example, algorithms that optimize power generation on the International Space Station or that detect the location of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
less than $1 million in sales and 28 employees. But by 2007, Barker Steel was one of the largest independent rebar fabricators in North America with 12 locations throughout the Northeast, generating in some years more than $200 million in... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
data and machine learning to improve health care. Kelley, who recently received a Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship at HBS, aims to bring fast and accurate diagnoses to cancer patients around the world. “The majority... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young